Track for door-hangers



(fro Model.) 1 A'. L.. 8v A. H. SGRANTON. i

TRACK POR DOOR RANGERS.A l 110.446,103; Patented Feb, 10, 1891.

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ILLINOIS.

TRACK FOR DOOR-HANGERS.

SECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 446,103, dated February 10, 1891.

Application led January 17, 1890. Serial No. 337,187. (No model.)

To (all whom t may concern:

Beit known that we, ALFRED L. SCRANTON and ALFRED H. SCRANTON, citizens of the United States, residing at lVestern Springs, Cook county, Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tracks for Door- Iflangers, of which the following is a specification.

IThe object of our invention is to construct a io combination-support for door-hanger tracks, such support consisting of a wooden back or cleat adapted to be fastened to the barn or other place where the track is to be used and blocks or brackets to be interposed between the cleat and the track.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a track embodying our improvement, with a hanger and part of the door to which the same is fastened; Fig. 2, a vertical seczo tion on an enlarged scale on line 2 2 of Fig.`

1, looking in the direction of the arrow; Fig. 3, a perspective view of one of the attachingbrackets shown in the two preceding figures; and Figs. it, 5, and 6 are sectional views illustrating modifications of the bracket or block.

A is the track, and B the cleat or wooden back.

C C are the brackets or blocks interposed between the track and the cleat.

3o D is the siding or strip to which the cleats and track are fastened; E, the hanger, and F the door.

Y The track A is made in the usual manner and requires no description. The cleat B is 3 5 preferably made of wood, though any other suitable material maybe employed. lIt is made of any desired breadth and thickness and of various lengths, such as ,will adapt it to the places where it is to be used and allow of easy 4o handling and transportation.

Between the cleat and track we place blocks or brackets C C, which serve to hold the track out from and connect it to the cleat. These maybe made in any form adapted to connect the track to the cleat, while maintaining sufiicient space between theV track and cleat to allow the hanger-wheels to run therein. In the drawings we have shown several forms in which these brackets may be made without 5o intending to limit ourselves to any one of them, the purpose of the brackets or blocks being to form with the cleat or wooden back a combination-support for the hanger-track. rl`he first three gures illustrate what we may call thepreferred form. The bracket, made preferably of steel, first slopes downward at an angle of some forty-five degrees, then runs substantially vertical for a distance sufficient to allow the track to be attached, and then inward and downward, as shown. rIhis form 6o of bracket is fastened to the cleat, as shown in Fig. 2, the top of the cleat being beveled to fit the sloping portion of the bracket. Either nails, bolts, or screws may be used to fasten these parts together; but if nails are used they should preferably be clinched, as shown. The track is secured to the bracket by rivets or in other suitable manner. The sections of track are preferably jointed together, as shown. 7o

In Fig. et the bracket is shown embracing the upper and lower sides of the cleat and nailed thereto, the track being attached as above.

Fig. 0 shows a malleable-iron bracket. In this bracket one of the legs is made with a shoulder c and a spike-pointed projection c', adapted to be driven into the cleat and clinched, the lower leg of the bracket being fastened by a nail or otherwise, as in the previous form.

In Fig. 5 the bracket consists of a metallic (preferably castfiron) block or washer, and the track, washer, and cleat are fastened together by means of screws or otherwise. As many of these blocks may be used as is desirable or necessary.

If desired, the track and brackets may be sold by themselves, allowing the purchaser to provide the wooden back and fasten the latter to the brackets, thus completing the device, 9o thereby reducing the cost of transportation.

In putting up a track provided with our improved support the cleat'is nailed to the barn or other place just above and over the door, as shown in Fig. 1, and serves to prevent the door from rising, and consequently the wheels'from jumping the track, thus dispensing with a double set of Wheels, one above and one below the track, for this purpose.

When the track is supported by means of roc brackets alone', the track being generally at! tached'fto *theA ouftsid 'eA of the barn,` wind, rain;

and snow can beat into the barn over the door.

`This is prevented by using our combinationsupport, since, although dirt, snow, &c., can

fallthrough thespace between the cleat and track," yet the `former effectually covers the top of the door and prevents the entrance ot`--` rain, snow, rbc.; also, owing to the fact that space is left between cleat and track-to yallowdirt, rbc., to fall through, there is non'ecessity' for Coverin g the trackand hangers. All former tracks have either allowed snow, rain, &c., to

beat nA over the door or have been made without openings between'the'tracle and barn.;

thereby preventing dirt, 85e., from falling through; but when thus constructed the track soon becomes clogged, causing the' hanger to ju-mp theltrack or the wheel to -breakand renderingk it necessarytocoverboth traclr and hangers.A Furthermore,V when the trackf,

which :consists ofv afcoinparatvely thinl strip of iron,` iismoved :from .one 'place vto .anotherk itl isf-liablefto becomefr-benlt and twisted','. and thus unfit forfuse.- This-'defect is-obvia-,d by thewnse7 of our-support,V since thewooden back-holds-the track straight and enablesl it to fbereadily p ut up.4r

Another advantage of our support is-that as the bracketslare fastened tothe- `wooden back at the factory they will be properly adjusted for putting up the track.

XVe claim- In door-hangers, the combination of a wooden back extendirrgoutbeyond the plan e-'of v'its support, whereby its lower edge may in use overhang and protect the top of the door, a

door-hanger trac-k having the plane of its loweredge higher thanth'e plane of the lower edge o'fnthe wooden back and the top Vof the door, whereby a horizontal space may in use be interposed'betw'eerrthetop'of the'door and the lowerz'edge' of thehanger-track, and brackets between the wooden back and the hangertrack, supportingthe track'and holding it outv from thebacknto aiord avertical-spaoebe'tween them; wherebyA dirt or snow fallingrinto the vertical space' between the'track and the back may-pass out lth rough the horizontal. spacebev 

